Gaelic Garden of the Dead MacGillivrayPaperback softback
Gaelic Garden of the Dead MacGillivrayPaperback softback The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth, magic and folklore in…
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Gaelic Garden of the Dead MacGillivrayPaperback softback
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth, magic and folklore in Gaelic culture, the first book, The Gaelic Garden of the Dead, is a forest quartet whose letters enunciate the imagery of their own form and function, drawing on the traditional Scots Gaelic alphabet of trees. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots.
As a meta-narrative of ecological preservation and a comment on ancient language culture, The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is a grove of observation: 'Love's eyes are colourless: a motive for moving through underworlds.' A Crisis of Dream, the middle book, is a sequence of ten dream diagrams. Among reflex-men and co-walkers are corpse measuring aspen rods, the pine hanging tree and the poison yew. Many of the